# Interesting concepts brought to your attention by your children

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-concepts-brought-to-your-attention-by-your-children/714707>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-concepts-brought-to-your-attention-by-your-children/714707 "2015-03-10T17:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-concepts-brought-to-your-attention-by-your-children/714707/41 "2015-03-18T15:53:56Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> I haven’t finished reading the thread, but that reminded me of my kids trying to come to terms with the fact that mommy and daddy also had mommies and daddies.
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> I mean they knew two grandmas and a pop (my dad) but it didn’t occur to them that they were the mommies and daddy of mommy and daddy.

That is another topic that we have been working on with my daughter. We were explaining that Grammy is mommy’s mommy. My daughter looked like she understood that idea. Then someone mentioned that even Grammy had a mommy. That resulted in a blank look like she was trying to process this deeper idea.

My response to this was “It’s pretty much Mommies and Daddies all the way down.”

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